Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13

Adams, Peoria; Pearl French, Peoria; w.
a. Potter, Bushnell, H.; Mrs. J.. NJ. Clay,
Eureka. H.; J. D. Richards; Mrs. Breeze,
Peoria; w. Geretzen, Peoria; G. Geretzen,
Peoria; I. Ravillo, Peoria; E. F. Adams
Feirbury; W. III. Lott, Elkwood; Adds
Webster, Peoria; Mrs. William Allen,
Peoria; Mr.. w. Vallejo, Peoria; Mrs H. B.
Mcclure and daughter. Peoria; Mrs Miller,
Peoria; Mr.. Wright, Peoria; Mrs James
Dale, Peoria; Mr.. F. B. Wyant, Peoria; Mr..
E. Goddell and son; DIR. William Collins,
Galesburg: J. Bady; J. S. Kaler, Breeds
Station, Ill; Mr.. John Murphy, Peoria;
Henry Sigelson, Keokuk, Iowa; Oney S.
Path, Green Valley; John A. Moore, Jack
sonville. ILL.,; J. d. McFadden. Peoria; Cap
tain Martin, Bloomington; ]. H. Greene,
Breeds Station.
Incidents of the Disaster.
CHATswoRTH, August 12th.-There was
one incident of the accident which stood
out far more horrible than all of the horri-
BILE scenes. In the coach was man, his
wife and little child. His name could not
be learned, but it is said he got on at Peoria.
When the accident occurred the whole
family of three was caught and held down
by broken woodwork. Finally when re-
lief came the man turned to the friendly
aid and said feebly Take out my wife
first; Pm afraid the child is dead" They
carried out the mother, and as a broken
seat was taken off her crushed breast the
blood which welled from her lips told how
badly she was hurt. They carried out the
child, a fair-haired girl of three and laid
her in the corn field. dead, alongside her
dying mother. Then they went back for
the father and brought him out. Both his
legs were broken, but he crawled through
the corn to the side of his wife, and, feeling
her loved features in the darkness, pressed
some brandy to her lips and asked her how
she felt. A feeble groan was the only
answer and the next instant she died. The
man felt the forms of his dead wife and
child, and cried out, "My God there is
nothing more fo- me to live for" and, tax
ing pistol out of his pocket, pulled the
trigger. The bullet went surely through
his brain, and the three dead bodies of that
little family are now lying side by side in
Chatsworth, waiting to be identified.
REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE.
| There was an incident in the affair which
! was not only remarkable, but shows how
| terribly those six coaches were jammed
and mashed. When the accident occurred
| r. Mooney, of Peoria, and Conductor
| Shllwell, who was in charge of the train,
were three cars from each other. Mooney
was on the second car and Stillwell in the
| fifth. The next instant they found them
| selves in each others arms, the car in
| which the conductor was riding having
been carried over the two in front and
| dropped on top of the one which Mooney
was in. The strange part of the affair was
| neither man was hurt.
| AN ENaINEER's AWFUL DEATH.
The most horrible death was that of Eu-
| gene McClintock, engineer of the second
| engine of the double-header. The Iirst en-
| CINE, which Engineer Sutherland was driv-
ing, passed over the burning bridge in safe
| ty, but it was under its weight that the
half-consumed bridge gave way and the
tender dropped back into the dry slough.
Sutherland's engine kept the rails and ran
on III safety, such was the awful speed OF
the unfortunate train. McClintock's 5 engine
plunged down into the black hole, and as
the tender mounted on top of the cab il
took McCiintock in the back and neck and
| cut his head clean off his shoulders The
trunk was found under his engine, but the
head could not be discovered, and the pre-
sumption is that it was ground TO atoms in
the horrible millstones of engine and ten
der.
| a BRAVE AND NOBLE GIRL.
| A noble girl, named Fannie Brebner, OF
| Harrington, ILL.,, was one of the noble
heroines of the wreck. She went through
the disaster unhurt, and an hour after she
acted as nurse for the dying victims. Sc
great were her services that the physicians
finally placed under her exclusive charge
two injured boys from Peoria, and pho
| tographer of Burlington, la. They were
all badly hurt and If they recover event.
ually, they will owe it almost wholly to
her ministrations. 1t was she and some o.
the Others like her who redeemed the con,
fdence in human nature after the sight o.
vandalism. The actions of the men there
were so bad that a rumor was started to
night that the wreck was not an accident